Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] such a meta-conspiracy is Fletcher Prouty. In his book The Secret Team (1) he described a loose alliance of individuals centred round the upper echelons of the CIA, with members elsewhere throughout the Federal bureaucracies, and with ramifications out into the media, publishing and the academic world. Prouty appears to believe, and encourages his […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] military ordnance……We’re here to say it’s no accident – somebody shot this aircraft down.'(20) In order to try and explain away the hundreds of eyewitness testimonies, the CIA produced a computer-generated video of the TWA Flight 800 crash. In the CIA’s video, the plane climbs about 3,000 feet after the nose section has broken […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] varies from country to country: in Britain, hardly at all; in the U.S……every once in a while there are hints that the lines between WACL and the CIA, for example, are virtually non-existent. Item: WACL’s role as the public “cover” for CIA funding of the Contras. Item: reports that WACL’s General John Singlaub and […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] literature has led to a distorted picture of covert operations in this seminal period. In fact, a recreation of the predominant views with the OPC and the CIA in the early Cold War era, 1946-52, reveals that paramilitary operations were regarded as only one method on a spectrum of covert operations. Indeed, paramilitary ventures […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] on.’ (1) The Labour Cabinet apparently had a mole. Chapman Pincher has written that the Labour Party had been ‘penetrated for many years by agents of the CIA …’ (2) ‘I know the identity of one former Cabinet Minister who was in regular touch with the CIA.’ (3) In what may be a reference […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle is misleading: this is really a book about the CIA and its progenitors running back into the 19th century. There is almost nothing here about the NSA, DIA, NRO and all the rest of the alphabet […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Stich’s informants; but even if only part of it is true, it is an extraordinary portrait of judi cial and political corruption. Stich’s thesis is that the CIA and many other federal bureaucracies, as well as chunks of the party political machines, have been wholly corrupted by drug money. Or something like that. Some […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing mujahadeen of Pakistan and Afghanistan in the […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
The Christic Institute’s allegations that there has been a ‘secret team’ of CIA and ex CIA personnel operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] good connections amongst the exiled anti-Castro Cubans who were then nearly as numerous in New Orleans as they were in Florida. He had probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he […]